fancyhdr

What is the fancyhdr?

The fancyhdr macro package allows you to customize in LATEX your page headers and footers in an easy way. You can define:

three-part headers and footers
decorative lines in headers and footers
headers and footers wider than the width of the text
multi-line headers and footers
separate headers and footers for even and odd pages
different headers and footers for chapter pages
different headers and footer on pages with floats

Of course, you also have complete control over fonts, uppercase and lowercase displays, etc.

Simple use of fancyhdr

Title page and information

To use this package in a LATEX document, place the file fancyhdr.sty in a directory/folder where TEX can find it (normally in the input directory/folder), and include in the preamble of your document after

CODE

\documentclass{...}

the commands:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}

We can visualize the page layout we can create with fancyhdr as follows:

Fancyhdr screenshot

The LeftHeader and LeftFooter are left justified; the CenteredHeader and CenteredFooter are centered; the RightHeader and RightFooter are right justified. We define each of the six “fields” and the two decorative lines separately.

Let's a pair of simple example

K. Grant is writing a report to Dean A. Smith, on “The performance of new graduates” so we want this type of layout:

where 3 is the page number. The title: The performance of new graduates is bold.
`1`
This is accomplished by these commands following

CODE

\pagestyle{fancy}

        \lhead{}
        \chead{}
        \rhead{\textbf{The performance of new graduates}}
        \lfoot{From: K. Grant}
        \cfoot{To: Dean A. Smith}
        \rfoot{\thepage}
        \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
        \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

\thepage

macro displays the current page number.

\textbf

puts it in bold face.) This is now fine, except that the first page does not need all these headers and footers. To eliminate all but the centered page number, issue the command

\thispagestyle{plain}

after the

\begin{document}

and the

\maketitle

commands. Alternatively, issue

\thispagestyle{empty}

if you do not want any headers or footers. In fact the standard LATEX classes have the command \maketitle defined in such a way that a

\thispagestyle{plain}

is automatically issued. So if you do want the fancy layout on a page containing \maketitle you must issue a \thispagestyle{fancy} after the \maketitle.